Gigolo's Mount Sims: Technosexuality & Speaker Sex
Author: Jonty Adderley
Saturday, October 5, 2002
"In my mind, that moment was like 'This is it, I can't stay here anymore', Mount (real name Matt) told Skrufff's Jonty Adderley.
"I don't give a fuck about reputation at all, that passed me by a long time ago but people started talking, the police started grabbing me and calling me a fag. I was like 'OK, you obviously don't understand anything that's going on. You can call me anything you want to, it's not going to affect me'."
Tossed in the cells and processed through the system, he moved to LA, where after a year of modelling, developed his Mount Sims electro act, in collaboration with performance artist Ryan Heffington. The pair started by launching an electro night Socket, progressing to producing music and an album Technosex. Snapped up by DJ Hell's Gigolo Recordings after he witnessed their live show at this year's Miami Music Conference, the pair are set to replicate their live show around the world, promoting their unique vision of technosexuality.
Skrufff (Jonty Adderley): What's the whole approach you use for your live shows-
Mount Sims: "Every show's different though I do the same music, though not exactly the same. One of the general messages I try to convey is that sex is power. There's a sexual revolution happening right now when it comes to the way women look at themselves and the way men look at themselves. There's almost a gender modification happening in the way that the two sexes are looking at themselves and the roles they've chosen or accepted are changing from the ones that haven been thrust on to them for 500 years.
A lot of this has happened in the last 20 years because we've had the first generation of children that grew up in the 80s that didn't have a war, in America anyway. They didn't have a Vietnam or a war besides Desert Storm and that one was one of the first successful wars by our Government that was covered up.
War redirects people's energies, it raises the fear factor, it and it dampens questions about yourself, so people don't get the chance to ask questions about 'Who am I-' All this energy is usually redirected at an enemy. Without that enemy there's an evolution that's been occurring sexually and mentally."
Skrufff: Where do you see the male role headed-
Mount Sims: "Psychologically, we've been classifying ourselves for the past several thousand years as alpha males. We been going around pissing on things and calling them our own and that's changing with new characteristics that are not like normal males starting to emerge. The roles and the definition of the genders are blurring. A lot of males are moving to where classically they've seen females existing. I wouldn't call it a femininity as such but there's a de-masculinisation process going on."
Skrufff: How much are these changes happening outside NY and LA for instance in small town America-
Mount Sims: "It happens all the time in small town America. Middle America has created this really strange black hole. Most of the towns there were pretty much defined during the time of the industrial revolution (19th Century) and they haven't moved on at all. Artists and art in general is looked at with a strange taboo in these places and also in general in countries that have secured the definition of themselves monetarily, where the ethics are all based around stability. Stability comes with marriage, with children with church and those three things obviously have very little connection with challenging definitions and art. So what happens is you get a very few kids in each town who get exposed to external ideas."
Skrufff: how did that apply to you-
Mount Sims: "When I was a teenager I started getting into modern techno and that evolved as the rave scene started happening. Tags